Common Brown Rat

Brown rats are between 19-28 cm in length as
well as their
tail, which is 60% of the body length. They weigh from 100 to 500
grams.
Rats can carry over thirty different diseases dangerous to humans,
including Weil's disease, typhus, and salmonella.
Control:
Removal of their food source is a key factor for successful rodent
control. They eat approximately one tenth of their body weight each
day, which is 25 pounds of food per year for every rat. They drink
approximately 60 ml per day per adult brown rat.

Sealing rat entry points into the building is of primary
importance. Secondly, it is vital that there are no food and sources
of clean drinking water i.e. a dripping outside tap, that would serve
to attract rats to come close to your building / home.

Finally, a poison baiting program should be considered to
remove a persistent local rat population.
This would involve typically three visits. Poison bait would be safely
secured to prevent all but the pest rats from obtaining access, The
follow up visit would entail refreshing and replenishing the bait
and remove dead rodent bodies, where accessible. The final visit would
be to remove the poison bait from the treatment site for safe disposal
and any further dead rat bodies.

Contact us as our expertise
helps us to help you. Health and safety is paramount when dealing
with nuisance pests.